Lattice pitched AI bots with employee records, then killed the feature in 3 days
HR platform Lattice said AI 'digital workers' would get onboarding, goals and a manager — then pulled the plan after three days of HR-professional backlash.
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300 AKTUELLE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG ERGÄNZTKUGU raised €8.5M betting landlords will pay to decarbonise via tenant-billed SaaS
Berlin proptech KUGU raised an €8.5M Series A to scale its energy-optimization platform from 12,000 to 50,000 buildings — with costs billed to tenants.
Fall lesenNazara's ex-CEO launched Kratos Studios and bought Web3 gaming DAO IndiGG
Manish Agarwal's Kratos Studios raised INR 160 Cr at INR 1,200 Cr led by Accel and acquired Web3 gaming DAO IndiGG via token swap.
Fall lesenKlarna folded its 18-month-old open banking brand Kosma back under the main brand
Klarna launched Kosma in April 2022 to take on Tink, Plaid and TrueLayer in open banking; 15 months later the brand was folded back under Klarna.
Fall lesenJuno, the indie YouTube client for Vision Pro, was pulled after a Google complaint
Christian Selig's Juno filled Vision Pro's YouTube gap from February 2024 — until Google's trademark complaint got it pulled from the App Store in October.
Fall lesenixigo buys 60% of Spain's Trenes to export its rail OTA playbook to Europe
ixigo's subsidiary is buying 60% of Spanish train OTA Trenes for €11.7M and 45% of AI firm Sqaas for €450K, taking India's rail playbook to Europe.
Fall lesenInfiniteRoots bought Bosque Foods for solid-state fermentation and whole-cut know-how
Hamburg mycelium startup InfiniteRoots acquired Bosque Foods to buy solid-state fermentation expertise and process data for industrial-scale foods.
Fall lesenFateless turned 2 million YouTube followers into funders of its RPG Godforge
The studio founded by creator HellHades raised $8M on top of $6M — with its own community a major contributor — ahead of Godforge's Q1 2026 launch.
Fall lesenEscape's AI plays attacker to scan APIs continuously, starting with GraphQL
Fresh out of Y Combinator, the French startup raised $3.9M for an agentless scanner that simulates API attacks inside CI/CD — 20 clients already.
Fall lesenEx-TVS EV head's E3 Electric bets on AI scooters without owning factories
Founded by former TVS Motor EV head P Sanjeev, E3 Electric.Ai raised ₹100 Cr to launch AI-powered scooters — spending on IP and software, not assembly lines.
Fall lesenDiscord hired an Activision Blizzard vet as CEO to steer its gaming-rooted monetization
Discord replaced co-founder Jason Citron with ex-Activision Blizzard vice chairman Humam Sakhnini, signaling a gaming-first monetization push amid IPO rumors.
Fall lesenDextrous Robotics' chopstick truck-unloader ran out of runway and shut down
Dextrous Robotics lifted boxes with a pair of pressing sticks, then an aggressive 2022 expansion outran the funding market: insolvent by January 2024.
Fall lesenDandelion's new CEO takes geothermal past retrofit and into new builds (interview)
In his first interview as CEO, Dan Yates tells Axios he will streamline Dandelion, launch its own heat pumps and chase new-construction installs.
Fall lesenCrib buys CirclePe to embed zero-deposit renting in its property management stack
Proptech Crib acquired rent-financing startup CirclePe in July 2026 so tenants could skip upfront deposits and operators got rent paid upfront.
Fall lesenWhiteHat Jr's founder returns with Complement1, a lifestyle platform for cancer care
Karan Bajaj and Trupti Mukker's Complement1 emerged from stealth with $16M to pair cancer patients with daily lifestyle coaching alongside oncology.
Fall lesenColuxe: Good Glamm cofounder Priyanka Gill quits Kalaari to bet on lab-grown diamonds
Priyanka Gill quit Kalaari Capital in February 2025 to found Coluxe, a lab-grown diamond jewellery brand with funding secured and a mid-2025 launch planned.
Fall lesenEaseMyTrip bought 55% of cheQin, a marketplace where travellers bargain with hotels
The listed Indian OTA bought the majority of a marketplace where hoteliers' five lowest offers compete for travellers, aiming to bulk up its hotel channel.
Fall lesenCapillary bought Tenerity's Digital Connect as its third US loyalty acquisition
Weeks after a $45M Series D, Capillary acquired Tenerity's Digital Connect to complete a full-suite loyalty platform and enter BFSI and telecom.
Fall lesenCacheflow's CPQ-and-billing bet for B2B SaaS ended in a HubSpot acquisition
Founded in 2021 by ex-Salesforce and SAP Ariba veterans, Cacheflow raised $16M to fix B2B software selling — and sold to HubSpot three years in.
Fall lesenEx-CD Projekt Red vets founded Blank. to trade open worlds for emotion-first games
Mateusz Kanik, 15 years at the Cyberpunk 2077 studio, and colleagues started Blank. in 2023, betting on a character-driven apocalypse story over open worlds.
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